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Cities > 10,000 inhabitants View of the English coast, from Pas-de-Calais. Pas-de-Calais is in the current region of Hauts-de-France and is surrounded by the departments of Nord and Somme, the English Channel, and the North Sea. It shares a maritime border with the English county of Kent in the United Kingdom halfway through the Channel Tunnel.
Japanese people in France (French: Japonais en France, Japanese: 在フランス日本人 Zai Furansu Nihonjin) are French residents and citizens of Japanese ancestry, including both those who have settled in France permanently and those born in the country, along with a significant community of short-term expatriates who spend at most a few years in the country before moving on.
Calais is located on the Pas de Calais, which marks the boundary between the English Channel and North Sea and located at the opposite end of the Channel Tunnel, 40 kilometres (25 miles) [83] from Dover. On a clear day the White Cliffs of Dover can be viewed across the channel. [84]
In the 19th century, the economic prosperity of Nord-Pas-de-Calais led to an unprecedented flourishing of the Fine Arts. [2] More recently, Nord-Pas-de-Calais has experienced new cultural mixtures with the strong Polish immigration during the interwar period and from the 1960s when the regional industry recruited workers from the Maghreb.
Courrières (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France [3] about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Lens. The Lens canal and the canalized river Deûle forms three quarters of the borders of the commune.
Jean-Philippe was born in Beuvry, Pas-de-Calais, France, in 1938. [2] His father, Camille Lenclos (1903-1985), was a respected designer of religious furniture whose work was exhibited in 2006 at the Hotel de Beaulaincourt in Béthune: Lefebvre-Lenclos, un atelier de sculpture en Artois, 100 ans d’art sacré 1805-1905 (A Sculpture Workshop in Artois, 100 years of sacred art 1805-1905).
Nord-Pas-de-Calais (French pronunciation: [nɔʁ pɑ d(ə) kalɛ] ⓘ); Picard: Nord-Pas-Calés; West Flemish: Nôord-Nauw van Kales); is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Hauts-de-France. [2] It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais.
Calais was a prize of war won in the Battle of Crécy of 1346 by Edward III of England after a long siege.Its capture gave England not only a key stronghold in the world’s textile trade centred in Flanders, but provided a strategic, defensible military outpost for England to regroup in future wars on the continent; the city's position on the English Channel could be reinforced over the short ...